Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-03-31

I Alfn GtTflct NOi1iulS5iOEtfc LukcT tOn
and Lyman will conduct an examination
n Chicago for departmental service on the
18th proximo, and investigate charges oil
Siolation of the civil service league of b a
:ity against the collector OF the port.
An explosion, by which 20 miners were
titled, occurred In Bull colliery, Sydney,
south Wales.
The president has appointed the follow
ng: Oscar S. Strauss OF Yer York, minis.
Ter co Turkey; Harold Marsh Sewall OF
Maine, consul general at Alpha, and n. j.
George OF Tennessee, coasul at Charlotte
own, p. Il. i.
The liabilities OF James & John Hunter
If Philadelphia, so far discovered, amount
10 1874, 900, divided as follows: Keen,
Bodine & Co. S102, 600; Mechanics Ma
sional bank, $4,000; Fourth Street Ma
ionaf hank, so, 500; Third National
bank, So, 400; West Philadelphia Nation
II bank. S14, 800; Independents National
bank, SO, 600.
Mrs. Langtry's clear profit Tor the
present season ioots up $4,000.
Bishop Lee OF Delaware is dangerously
III at Wilmington.
A syndicate has been formed in the
Jnited States to buy all the iron mines in
,anada.
The Edmiston & WadelI company OF
Brooklyn, manufacturers OF agricultural
Implements, has failed with liabilities OF
5000, 900 and no assets to speak OF. The
president OF the company. j. r. Edmiston,
aas skipped to Canada. and the other Off
,ers cannot be found. Everything has
ganished. The stock has been gobbled up
by the largest creditors. The books are
put OF sight.
John L. Sullivan, in a letter to the New
York Sporting Times, has the following to
say of Cardiff; ! will try to arrange an
other match with Cardiff, and you can bet
III do I'll show him that my broken arm
IS good again. He will find that he can't
luck on me again. I'll give all the won
iers" a show at me, Tor | want DO prove to
everybody that ] am as good to-day as !
ever was. ] want to come pack to New
York and be able to accept the champion
ship belt which is being made for me, so
that everybody will know that / am a
champion beyond a doubt. There's some
fellows who claim championship, but they
won't make a match with me unless l give
hem q share OF the gate money.
Postofices established: Dakota
Guelphs. Dickey county. Postmasters cor
nissioned-Iowa: Iowa Falls, j. p earle.
ton: Alton, Alice II. Groves; Cedar Falls,
\. III. Dufoe; Laborte City, r. s. WATSON;
I w UbDlDSIOu- ". w. hOuIudh. EuiuurSobd.
Ada, +. Puhlsr; Granite Falls, II. j. Wilk-
inson; Black River Falls, G.. w. Lewis;
Portage, j. 4. Jones.
Gagliardi has been engaged to paint a
portrait Of Cardinal Gibbons. The picture
will hang beside that OF the pope in the
eardinal's titular church. The coat oi
arms assumed by Cardinal Gibbons will
have in the center IL picture OF the i'm.
maculatc conception on a green back
ground shield, surmounted by a cardinals
hat, with five rows OF tassels depending
rom the sides.
Mrs. Cleveland unveiled n portrait o.
Mrs. Dolly Madison. The occasion was q
charitable entertainment in aid OF the
Washington city orphan asylum. Mrs,
Madison was one ofthe six founders OF the
Institution.
Gov. Thayer ofNebraska signedthed death
warrant OF Jack Marien, sentenced to
hang at Beatrice. The crime was the muir
Ter Of John Cameron in 1872. Ii was one
gear after the murder before the body wa
iound and Marien suspected OF the crime
and ten years more elapsed before the sus
pected criminal was arrested. Ehe cas-,
has been in the courts for the past five
years, and three times the prisoner hai
been sentenced to hang
Consul Eckstein at Amsterdam, in a re
nort on Dutch cattle, writes as follows tc
the state department or the subject o
misnaming these cattle in the Unitet
States: In the United States there pre-
walls a practice OF writing and speaking o
certain breeds of Dutch cattle as 'Hol
STEMS So doing seems to be very annoy
ing to farmers, stock raisers and othel
/ parties in this country, as there exists in
Holland no breed OF cattle and never did
as I am informed, named 'Holstein.' |
notice would be taken OF this matter an
the practice referred to discontinued, j
would be greatly appreciated by a larg
number Of people here.
The German Official Gazette publishet
an imperial rescript. After expressing nj
heartfelt approval OF the sympathetic in
terest shown by the people on his birth
day. emperor William proceeds: In m,
early youth l saw the monarchy OF m,
deeply afflicted iather. under a direful visit